There's something almost magical about filmstrips, even today. When I began teaching, it was in the mid-1980's and the school had a VCR. All the best educational materials were on video, but every time I found a filmstrip that might be useful and showed it to the class, it captured the students' imaginations the way that nothing else did. Sure they were old fashioned, and sometimes out of date, but the kids loved them. They...
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I'm a great fan of vintage classroom filmstrips as well as the Bell & Howell projectors usually used to project them. This book filled my heart not with nostalgia, but the actual joy that invaded the entire classroom when the teacher said, "We're going to watch a filmstrip today, kids!" Even upon simply hearing about the project, the smells of my elementary school wafted into my nostrils from a long-lost file in my brain...
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I didn't grow up in America, so these film strips are wholly alien to me... and a great discovery! The way they are presented, with dry wit and lots of information, sets them into a context that is relevant for today. A great gift, for my American and non-American friends alike!
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I didn't grown up in America and sometimes when I see things about America on the TV news, I wonder how another English speaking country can be so different to mine - and then I read Danny's book and realised that it isn't. I think that producers of the film strips (as they were called in Australian schools) must have all come out of the same mould. It brought back memories of rainy Friday afternoon, when sport was cancelled...
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I'm not sure why the reviewer below only gave this three stars with such a nice review? But this book is a trip down memory lane, often funny and really quite beautiful and fun to look at. The images are amazingly reproduced, and the author gives context to the filmstrips, and organizes them by subject. I promise, you won't be disappointed. I had to buy another copy because a colleague took mine!
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